Subj : Monitoring FidoNet
To : August Abolins
From : John Dovey
Date : Fri May 28 2021 02:34 am
Glad to see you, August!
AA> Hello Kurt!
AA>
AA> ** On Thursday 27.05.21 - 07:02, you wrote to me:
AA>
KW>> Some ISPs use "carrier NAT", which means you get a private
KW>> address from the carrier, and they do their own NAT
KW>> upstream from you. It's pretty transparent to a web
KW>> browsing user checking their mail, but it means that you
KW>> can't port-forward, since people on the outside can't get
KW>> to your system.
AA>
AA> I think that another term for that is "bridge mode"?
AA>
AA> I know that one. An account with a local ISP was set up that
AA> way at first and broke the ability to access the business pcs
AA> from home. That was very upsetting.
AA>
AA> --
AA> ../|ug
I've finally gotten to talk to the *right* people and have now applied for a static IP. I'm told once I have that I won't have any issues, We'll see.
